8 Top judaism books like Jews of Silence by Elie Wiesel

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Jews of Silence

By: Elie Wiesel

4.14

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

In the fall of 1965 the I sraeli newspaper Haaretz sent a young journalist named Elie Wiesel to the…

"Урядові екскурсоводи слушно зауважують: їхати в Бабин Яр немає потреби, там нема на що дивитися. Али ви можете побачити його в центрі міста, на кожній площі і на кожній вулиці: одночасно все і нічого."

-Elie Wiesel, Jews of Silence

"Урядові екскурсоводи слушно зауважують: їхати в Бабин Яр немає потреби, там нема на що дивитися. Али ви можете побачити його в центрі міста, на кожній площі і на кожній вулиці: одночасно все і нічого."

-Elie Wiesel, Jews of Silence

If you liked the judaism plot in Jews of Silence by Elie Wiesel , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition

By: David Nirenberg

4.30

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

This incisive history upends the complacency that confines anti-Judaism to the ideological extremes… read more

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  • history
  • jewish
  • judaism
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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2. Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)

By: Agatha Christie

3.96

Format: 324 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A flamboyant party host is murdered in full view of a roomful of bridge players! Mr. Shaitana wa… read more

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  • classics
"I have always disapproved of murder."

-Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)

"Do you believe in the value of truth, my dear, or don’t you?"

-Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)

"Hercule Poirot spread out his hands in his most foreign manner."

-Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)

"There is the natural liar...Always says the thing that sounds best."

-Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)

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3. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

By: David Foster Wallace

4.15

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television… read more

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  • nonfiction
"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

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4. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

By: Atul Gawande

4.49

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

In Being Mortal, author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Endings matter, not just for the person but, perhaps even more, for the ones left behind."

-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

"Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you."

-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

"Death, of course, is not a failure. Death is normal. Death may be the enemy, but it is also the natural order of things."

-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

"He moved his line in the sand. This is what it means to have autonomy -- you may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with …"

-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

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5. Orlando

By: Virginia Woolf , Sandra M Gilbert

3.87

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully const… read more

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  • classics
"Life and a lover"

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"Thoughts are divine."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"All extremes of feeling are allied with madness."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

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6. Bilbo's Last Song

By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Pauline Baynes

4.50

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

Bilbo's Last Songis considered by many to be Tolkien's epilogue to his classic work The Lord of the… read more

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  • classics
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7. Ahsoka

By: E.K. Johnston

3.57

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Fans have long wondered what happened to Ahsoka after she left the Jedi Order near the end of the C… read more

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8. Son of Hamas

By: Mosab Hassan Yousef , Ron Brackin , مصعب حسن يوسف

4.11

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Since he was a small boy, Mosab Hassan Yousef has had an inside view of the deadly terrorist group … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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9. Pompeii

By: Robert Harris

3.56

Format: None pages, Paperback

With his trademark elegance and intelligence Robert Harris recreates a world on the brink of disast… read more

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10. The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BCE – 1492 CE

By: Simon Schama

4.31

Format: 1056 pages, Hardcover

From the invention of a single deity and the killing of his embodied Son through to the production … read more

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11. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

By: David Grann

3.96

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the… read more

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12. Conclave

By: Robert Harris

4.00

Format: None pages,

The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and eighteen cardinals… read more

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13. The Sound and the Fury

By: William Faulkner

3.86

Format: 366 pages, Paperback

The tragedy of the Compson family features some of the most memorable characters in literature: bea… read more

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  • classics
"I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"with that sort of gigantic delicacy of an elephant picking up a peanut."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"Caddy put her arms around me, and her shining veil, and I couldn't smell trees anymore and I began to cry."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune"

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

14. The Wandering Jews

By: Joseph Roth , Michael Hofmann , Elie Wiesel

4.00

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Every few decades a book is published that shapes Jewish consciousness. One thinks of Wiesel's Nigh… read more

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15. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

By: Jonathan Safran Foer

3.68

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifi… read more

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16. Paradise Lost

By: John Milton , John Leonard

3.84

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more

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  • classics
  • religion
"What hath night to do with sleep?"

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Solitude sometimes is best society."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

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17. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

By: Siddharth Kara

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Now you understand how people like us work?"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

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18. Jews Don't Count

By: David Baddiel

4.21

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Jews Don’t Count is a book for people on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight … read more

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  • history
  • jewish
  • judaism
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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19. When the Angels Left the Old Country

By: Sacha Lamb

4.27

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

A queer immigrant fairytale about individual purpose, the fluid nature of identity, and the power o… read more

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  • judaism
  • jewish
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20. They Called Us Enemy

By: George Takei

4.42

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

A graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within Americ… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"The wheel of democracy turns slowly."

-George Takei, They Called Us Enemy

"Shame is a cruel thing. It should rest on the perpetrators but they don't carry it the way the victims do."

-George Takei, They Called Us Enemy

"Our Democracy is a Participatory Democracy. Existentially it's dependent on people who cherish the shinning, highest ideals of our Democracy and actively engage in the political process."

-George Takei, They Called Us Enemy

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21. Beautiful Country

By: Qian Julie Wang

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to “beautiful country.” Yet when sev… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Words rolled out of my mouth one after another and I do not dare to interrupt them with a breath. They are new words, foreign words but familiar all the same because they have been sitting at my thro…"

-Qian Julie Wang, Beautiful Country

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22. People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

By: Dara Horn

4.36

Format: 237 pages, Hardcover

Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating ess… read more

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  • history
  • jewish
  • judaism
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
"Evil' may or may not be banal, but killing Jews sure is."

-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

"between the raindrops" - a Hebrew expression for evading repeated disaster."

-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

"Sometimes your body is someone else's haunted house. Other people look at you and can only see the dead."

-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

"There are so few Jews in the world: even in the United States, we are barely 2 percent of the population, a minority among minorities... Statistically speaking, nothing that happens to Jews should be…"

-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

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23. Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

By: Noa Tishby

4.34

Format: None pages, Audiobook

AUDIO EXCLUSIVE: INCLUDES THE SONG “ELATION STATION” BY INFECTED MUSHROOM!A “fascinating and very m… read more

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  • history
  • jewish
  • judaism
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"The truth is, there is absolutely nothing that can be said of Israel, that cannot be said of Pakistan."

-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

"Instead of helping people move forward UNRWA keeps the Palestinian people in an eternal loop of displacement. Instead of solving the problem in any meaningful way, they have overseen the problem's ex…"

-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

"Here's the nugget: settling the refugee problem would mean ending the war against Israel. And as of now, the Palestinians and many of the Arab world have been refusing to do so. The best way to keep …"

-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

"There is almost no difference between the establishment of Israel and Pakistan. They were both created as a safe haven for persecuted groups: Jews and Muslims. They are both engaged in land disputes.…"

-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

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24. The Salt Grows Heavy

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.59

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewi… read more

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"And you shall know her by the trail of dead"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"There is nothing wrong with being a monster."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"A thousand mythologies contributed to my conception."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"The truth liberates; it cannot cripple or maul, cannot injure, not unless one declares themselves its apostate."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

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25. The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

By: Esmé Weijun Wang

4.14

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"In the language of cancer, people describe a thing that “invades"

-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

"The psychiatric hierarchy decrees who can and cannot be high-functioning and “gifted."

-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

"Someday, we'll be able to trace all mental illnesses to autoimmune disorders. But we're not there yet."

-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

"The line between insanity and mysticism is thin; the line between reality and unreality is thin. Liminality as a spiritual concept is all about the porousness of boundaries."

-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

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26. Call Me American: A Memoir

By: Abdi Nor Iftin

4.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The incredible true story of a boy living in war-torn Somalia who escapes to America--first by way … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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27. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

By: Zora Neale Hurston

4.04

Format: 193 pages, Paperback

In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"The present was too urgent to let the past intrude."

-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

"You see de rattlesnake in de woods?' Dey say, 'Yeah.' I say 'If you bother wid him, he bite you. If you know de snake killee you, why you bother wid him?' (Oluale Kossula)"

-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

"So den we gittee married by de license, but I doan love my wife no mo' wid de license than I love her befo' de license. She a good woman and I love her all de time. (Oluale Kossula)"

-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

"Whole nations are transported, exterminated, their name to be forgotten, except in the annual festival of their conquerors, when sycophants call the names of the vanquished countries to the remembran…"

-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

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28. The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning

By: Ben Raines

4.34

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An NPR Best Book of the Year. The incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved peop… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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29. Antisemitism: Here and Now

By: Deborah E. Lipstadt

4.10

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning author of The Eichmann Trial and Holocaust History on Trial gives us a penetratin… read more

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  • history
  • jewish
  • judaism
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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30. Israelophobia: The Newest Version of the Oldest Hatred and What To Do About It

By: Jake Wallis Simons

4.25

Format: 198 pages, Kindle Edition

'This is an important and necessary book by a superb and subtle writer. There's no one more qualifi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • judaism
  • history
  • jewish
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31. Jews of Silence

By: Elie Wiesel

4.14

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

In the fall of 1965 the I sraeli newspaper Haaretz sent a young journalist named Elie Wiesel to the… read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • classics
  • biography
  • jewish
  • world history
  • judaism
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
"Урядові екскурсоводи слушно зауважують: їхати в Бабин Яр немає потреби, там нема на що дивитися. Али ви можете побачити його в центрі міста, на кожній площі і на кожній вулиці: одночасно все і нічого."

-Elie Wiesel, Jews of Silence

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